Before guidebooks and cell phones—there was the open road.
In 1971, a young Midwestern woman leaves home with $900, a small backpack, and a hunger for the world beyond the familiar. What begins as a six-month adventure becomes a six-year odyssey across three continents and through one of history's most pivotal eras.
She hitchhikes through Europe and travels the legendary overland hippie trail to Afghanistan before borders closed to Westerners. She works on a kibbutz and later joins the Temple Mount excavations in Jerusalem, eventually becoming the dig's surveyor and witnessing the impact and aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Finally, she journeys to a research camp on Kenya’s remote Lake Turkana, established by Richard Leakey only a few years earlier. There she works with a small field team studying human migration into the region 10,000 years ago.
Crossing Horizons is more than a travel memoir—it's a vivid chronicle of places and moments that no longer exist, a testament to the transformative power of curiosity, and a portrait of a young woman discovering who she is by following the paths of peoples across deserts, dig sites, and borders soon to shift forever.
One woman. Six years. A world that would never be the same—and neither would she.
